Possible plastic Solar Auxilia Charonite Ogryns?

[Matcap86]

So I was browsing the warhammer.com site looking at Solar Auxilia stuff and noticed the Resin ogryns are set to "sold out online". Now that in itself is not fullproof evidence of their replacement. However I also skimmed past the Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia Battlegroup box. Most of the Legions Imperialis stuff has full scale minis on the boxart and there are two ogryns on there with poses that do not match the Resin ones, but with (I think) too much detail to be 8mm models. Could be digitally altered of course but they usually don't do that too often to model designs. What do you guys think? Might be a chance we get a new wave of Solar Auxilia stuff with a few of the super heavies, maybe an Aurox or Carnodon and the Ogryns. 

 

The resin models

 

The models on the box art. 

 

 

And the whole boxart for reference:

 

[Mogger351]

Given they've sculpted a version for plastic production at tiny scale, it stands to logic they'll be able to produce them at big scale too at some point. It's a when not an if imo.

[Fire Golem]

I hope so but are the box art ones not just the right 2 from the current ones? The claws are all interchangeable and the one with the bare head also has a closed helmet option, from what I remember. 

[sarabando]

the crest on the helmet also looks taller man i really hope this is real. 

[Noserenda]

Possibly, but the "Sold out online" means exactly that, they sold out and will normally be back later.

This is also new ground for SGS, we dont know yet if their 30k updates are one and done until a new wave down the line or we will continue to see SA units drop even after theyve moved on to Mechanicum.

Of course they can make 28mm versions in plastic, but the existence of 8mm versions really proves very little, the ones we do have are not the same sculpts shrunk/blown up, at best thats been the basis for more work on the model and they are not afaik releasing exact copies in multiple scales. Infantry especially! 

[Xenith]

40 minutes ago, Noserenda said:

Possibly, but the "Sold out online" means exactly that, they sold out and will normally be back later.

 

Other way round, "temporarily out of stock" means they will make more and be for sale again, "sold out online" means that these models are gone in the current form, and will either be replaced, or reboxed, or different sku basically. 

[Matrindur]

21 minutes ago, Xenith said:

 

Other way round, "temporarily out of stock" means they will make more and be for sale again, "sold out online" means that these models are gone in the current form, and will either be replaced, or reboxed, or different sku basically. 

Or a bug in their website which also isn't rare these days (or more like these years)

[Orion]

3 hours ago, Mogger351 said:

Given they've sculpted a version for plastic production at tiny scale, it stands to logic they'll be able to produce them at big scale too at some point. It's a when not an if imo.

I mean sure. But the imperialis models have nothing to do with that.
They were originally digitally sculpted in the first place . 

[LSM]

2 hours ago, Noserenda said:

...the ones we do have are not the same sculpts shrunk/blown up...

 

IIRC there was a WarCom article where they suggested that they did in fact sculpt the LI stuff at larger scale, then shrink it, and modify the result.

 

Edit: though I just quickly poked around the early LI articles and couldn't really see anything, so maybe I imagined it.

 

Edited July 29 by LSM

[torcathmk2]

GW have Charonite Ogryns painted up in the newer green scheme for a while now. And the resin kit is posable to a degree, not monopose at any rate
 

[Matcap86]

20 minutes ago, torcathmk2 said:

GW have Charonite Ogryns painted up in the newer green scheme for a while now. And the resin kit is posable to a degree, not monopose at any rate
 

 

I miss the sad emoji. But I think you're correct here.

[Mogger351]

1 hour ago, LSM said:

 

IIRC there was a WarCom article where they suggested that they did in fact sculpt the LI stuff at larger scale, then shrink it, and modify the result.

 

Edit: though I just quickly poked around the early LI articles and couldn't really see anything, so maybe I imagined it.

 

I'm glad you went and checked, I also remember this. They explained how the rivets were a problem/casualty of the process.

[Joe]

Wasn't WarCom - it was one of the White Dwarf articles from the period AT launched.

[WrathOfTheLion]

5 hours ago, Joe said:

Wasn't WarCom - it was one of the White Dwarf articles from the period AT launched.

They did it as well on WarCom, I think this was the article https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/24/legions-imperialis-designer-interview-just-how-did-they-make-these-tanks-so-small/

[WrathOfTheLion]

I started going through to see what all is marked 'Sold Out Online', and there were a few things that caught my eye.

 

At least on the US store, the Aurox, Malcador Infernus and Malcador Defender are also marked as such, along with the Charonite Ogryns. We already have a plastic Malcador, so it could be indicative of an expansion to cover the other variants. The Aurox would be very welcome if so, but they've been fickle with it over the years.

 

On the Legionnes Astartes side, there's a few interesting ones as well, notably the Sicaran Punisher, the Rapier batteries (all of them are marked on the UK website), the Medusa and the Glaive. The Sicaran and Rapier batteries I think would be the most likely of that list to receive a full plastic kit, but I'll be interested to see if the Medusa gets a reprinted entry in the Martian Civil War book. The Glaive is a bit odd, as they recently redid the SKU for it when they switched it to use plastic sponsons.

 

For Mechanicum, the Ursarax (UK store), Vulturax, Krios tanks and the big Ordinatus Aktaeus are marked that way. The first three are units that wouldn't be surprising as a followup for Mechanicum, the Ordinatus is significantly more unlikely imo.

 

None of these mean anything exactly, but what they've taken off the store has been a fairly reliable indicator in the past, so it'll be interesting to see what they do. It doesn't necessarily always mean they'll be a plastic kit, such as when they did new resin SKUs for the Glaive, Javelin, etc. a while back.

Edited August 1 by WrathOfTheLion

[The Scorpion]

On 7/29/2024 at 4:11 AM, Matcap86 said:

 

 

AUXILIA BANEBLADE LETSGOOOO

[Xirix]

Slightly off-topic, but on the subject of Sold Out Online things, the Legion Basilisk has just disappeared entirely. Which probably means it's gone as we have yet to have a new model released for a Legacy unit, a shame, I kinda would have loved that in plastic.